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The IAI provides financial support between $100,000 and $300,000 USD for research projects lasting up to 3 years, targeting teams from 14 specific Latin American and Caribbean countries. Funding is contingent on co-funding and alignment with IAI's strategic policies, including a mandatory equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) plan.

The paper examines the social impacts of transitioning to a circular economy in Umeå, Sweden, focusing on seven social impact categories, including employment, access to services, and participation. While stakeholders generally perceive the transition as a "win-win-win" for the environment, economy, and people, the authors suggest this lack of perceived negative impact may indicate insufficient consideration of societal consequences or a lack of civil society participation in the strategy's design.

The report details a workshop evaluating South Africa's use of the INSPIRE framework to prevent violence against children (VAC). It identifies progress in research and policy, such as the Western Cape government's Safety Plan and the National Strategic Plan on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide. However, it highlights critical gaps, including the lack of a government focal point to maintain 'Pathfinding' momentum and poor coordination between government and NGOs. The document recommends the reappointment of an INSPIRE champion and the adaptation of the INSPIRE Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) to the South African context.

The 2022 rainy season in West Africa saw above-average rainfall and devastating floods, particularly in Nigeria and Niger, where fatalities reached at least 612 and 195 respectively. An attribution study found that climate change made the seasonal rainfall over the Lake Chad region approximately 80 times more likely and 20% more intense, while the 7-day maximum rainfall over the lower Niger Basin became about twice as likely and 5% more intense. Beyond climate change, the flooding was driven by the release of the Lagdo Dam in Cameroon and exacerbated by high poverty rates, political instability, and the location of infrastructure and settlements on flood plains.

The People's Accord towards a New Social Contract argues that radical structural change through new social contracts—covenants between citizens, states, businesses, and nature—is the only way to achieve a just transition and prevent societal collapse. It advocates for the use of mechanisms such as citizen assemblies, ecological constitutions, and just transition plans to rebuild trust and democratic accountability.

The document outlines a framework for operationalizing the environment-health nexus in Asia and the Pacific, supporting a regional application of the 2022 global One Health Joint Plan of Action. It emphasizes the need for integrated decision-making across health, biodiversity, food systems, and climate action to protect human well-being and ecosystems. The text also highlights the increasing involvement of civil society health organizations in global biodiversity governance, specifically noting their participation in the 15th UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) to prioritize environmental determinants of health.

The report argues that while shifting toward plant-based diets and away from industrial meat production is urgently needed for environmental and health reasons, such transitions must be planned inclusively to protect vulnerable stakeholders. It applies the 'just transition' framework—previously established in the energy sector—to the meat sector to ensure costs and benefits are evenly distributed among consumers, farmers, workers, communities, and companies.

The document argues for an urgent shift toward plant-based diets and away from industrial meat production due to environmental and health impacts. It emphasizes that because meat supply chains support numerous livelihoods and cultural traditions, policies to reduce production must be inclusive and carefully planned to ensure costs and benefits are distributed equitably and vulnerable stakeholders are protected.

The document highlights how global climate decisions at COP27 affect local areas through three primary tools: an analysis of U.S. warming scenarios, the Global Climate Shift Index (CSI-Global) tracking daily temperature influences in over 1,000 cities, and the Picturing Our Future tool visualizing sea level rise. It emphasizes the gap between current emissions trajectories and the 1.5°C to 2°C warming limits agreed upon in 2015.

The study uses a Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP) model and five CMIP5 GCMs to project climate impacts on the Sittaung river basin. Findings indicate that while increased riverine flows will likely benefit domestic water supply and hydropower generation, unmet agricultural demands for food production are expected to increase.

ClientEarth recommends that the new EU Framework for Forest Monitoring and Strategic Plans explicitly guarantee Aarhus Convention rights, establish a common EU-wide remote sensing data platform, and align with the Nature Restoration Law and Deforestation Regulation to improve forest governance and enforcement.

The factsheet outlines how a universal basic income guarantee (UBIG) serves as an investment in human capital by improving child health, mental health, and educational attainment. It cites evidence from South Africa and other low- and middle-income countries to show that cash transfers reduce malnutrition, increase school enrolment, and improve life satisfaction, which in turn enhances labour market productivity and long-term economic security.

The document highlights a significant gender gap in nuclear diplomacy and science, noting that African delegations at NPT review conferences (19802015) had the lowest women's representation at 18%. It argues that women are disproportionately affected by nuclear radiation and conflict, yet are excluded from security dockets and decision-making. The brief emphasizes the potential of peaceful nuclear science and technology (NST) to advance Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Africa, particularly in electricity generation, agriculture, and medicine, noting a critical lack of facilities to treat cervical cancer, the most common female cancer on the continent. It also addresses the legacy of French nuclear tests in Algeria, where victims, particularly women, remain under-researched and uncompensated. The authors recommend prioritizing treaty obligations, investing in nuclear medicine, and increasing women's representation in nuclear education and multilateral delegations.

The Amazon biome is facing a critical situation due to deforestation, degradation, and climate change, which threaten its role in global climate regulation and its immense biodiversity. Key drivers include cattle ranching, mechanized agriculture, illegal logging, and unsustainable infrastructure projects like dams. The report emphasizes the vital role of indigenous territories and protected areas in maintaining resilience and proposes an integrated landscape management approach, the protection of free-flowing rivers, and the transition to a sustainable bioeconomy to avoid an ecological tipping point.

The Upper Rio Grande Basin is in moderate condition with an overall score of 54% (C), facing severe threats from climate change, drought, and population pressure. While municipal water supplies remain strong, annual low flows are critically low, and the river's natural hydrology is heavily altered, particularly in southern New Mexico and Texas. Scenario modeling indicates that rising temperatures and declining precipitation will further reduce water availability for agriculture and ecological flows by 2050. Proposed mitigation strategies include reducing irrigation losses, fallowing agricultural land, and reducing municipal water demand to restore environmental flows.

The report provides a comprehensive framework for implementing the Central Arctic Ocean Fisheries Agreement (CAOFA), which temporarily bans commercial fishing in the high seas of the Central Arctic Ocean to prevent ecological disaster. It advocates for a precautionary approach, emphasizing the separation of scientific advice from political decision-making through tools like management procedures (MPs) and reference points. The document details best practices for quota allocation, monitoring and compliance (including 100% VMS and observer coverage), and the inclusion of indigenous and local knowledge. It further suggests that the CAOFA can serve as a broader experiment for Arctic governance, offering lessons on transparency, adaptive management, and the inclusion of non-Arctic states.

The document provides an overview of COP27, the 27th United Nations conference on climate change, which brings together approximately 200 countries to discuss plans for reducing carbon emissions to limit global temperature rise to 1.5C. It identifies three overarching themes for the conference: emissions reductions, climate finance, and prioritising people through the lens of 'loss and damage'.

The document is a call to action from a coalition of civil society, smallholders' and Indigenous Peoples' organisations directed at EU Ministers, Commissioners, and Members of the European Parliament. It advocates for a robust EU regulation on deforestation-free products to protect biodiversity, climate, and human rights, outlining ten specific requirements for the law to be considered effective.

World Weather Attribution (WWA) reports on its activities from October 2021 to October 2022, during which it published eight rapid analyses and several peer-reviewed papers. These studies examined the role of human-induced climate change in events such as heatwaves in India, Pakistan, and the UK, as well as flooding and droughts in various regions. The organization emphasizes that while climate change is a major driver for heatwaves, its role in other events like tropical cyclones can be less clear, often compounding with high levels of vulnerability to increase human impacts.

This report, prepared by the IAI Directorate for the Executive Council's fifty-fourth meeting, outlines the primary achievements and activities of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research from 1 July 2022 to 11 October 2022. It details progress in science communication, capacity building, and strategic partnerships aimed at addressing global environmental change in the Americas.